Darwin's bee-trap : The kinetics of Catasetum, a new world orchid
Nicholson, Charles C. LU
; Bales, James W.
; Palmer-Fortune, Joyce E.
and Nicholson, Robert G.
(2008)
In Plant Signaling and Behavior
3(1).
p.19-23
- Abstract
The orchid genera Catasetum employs a hair-trigger activated, pollen release mechanism, which forcibly attaches pollen sacs onto foraging insects in the New World tropics. This remarkable adaptation was studied extensively by Charles Darwin and he termed this rapid response "sensitiveness." Using high speed video cameras with a frame speed of 1000 fps, this rapid release was filmed and from the subsequent footage, velocity, speed, acceleration, force and kinetic energy were computed.
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- author
- Nicholson, Charles C.
LU
; Bales, James W.
; Palmer-Fortune, Joyce E.
and Nicholson, Robert G.
- publishing date
- 2008-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Catasetum, Darwin, High-speed photography, Pollination
- in
- Plant Signaling and Behavior
- volume
- 3
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 19 - 23
- publisher
- Landes Bioscience
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:41349108743
- ISSN
- 1559-2316
- DOI
- 10.4161/psb.3.1.4980
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 1a57cff5-8234-4a22-8045-313fce23cc5e
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